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Are you going to use a custom .grp for the gas that surrounds them, or should I make custom gas for each frame?

Oh, and when recoloring, should I just give everything a blue tint... Like... Well generally change the hue of each color/shade to a pale-ish dark blue? Oh just certain parts, and leave parts non-blue such as the claws and stuff?

Because, here's what I have so far:


Is that the right color/shade of blue? If not, tell me because thanks to PHOTOSHOP (Take that you MSPaint lovers ) I can re-color it fast with ease. Oh, and as for the unit itself, is that relatively close to what you were looking for? Lol it kinda looks like a zerg version of a dragoon, or at least it did until I re-colored it.

Woah, that's a really awesome unit, SubFocus.

<Agreeing!

Subfocus, Ermac's succsessor?

LOL! Wow... I don't think I'm THAT good.

Trust us, you are.

DoA>Don't you think that the unit will blend with the Twilight tileset? Other than this, a decent grp it is, although I think that it may need a bit more 'personality', if you permit me the expression. I mean that so far it looks just like a 4-legged spider, and it doesn't have any distinctive parts. Of course, it's just my POV, but I suggest that you add something 'special' to it, something that will make it recognizable at one glance. This is what makes a unit unique IMO.

ok...

I'm sorta a newbie to GRP editing, but I'll take something as a mini-project

I'm not yet the "Subfocus" or "Ermac" but I'll give it a shot.

Try to keep it simple, maybe an air unit, or building

Dude, just make something and post it.

Ok here's my attemp at a plasma tank:

I've got one frame done for a ground transport

Whadda ya think?


I'm not sure what that blue and orange and yellow and red bits come up as in SC, but they were there when I started, I'm not gonna take them away.

EDIT: it wasn't very tough to make, but I've got 24 frames to go if I continue
EDIT: actually, the vertical ones are always the easiest, I'm gonna have to start bringing sines/cosines into the equation(literally!) if I want my streched dropship part to work.
EDIT: You'd better like it, I did it instead of working on my french project.
EDIT: 8 frames to go, plus a bunch of editing for different steps, nothing major.

its just movement graphics, you know how the treads look like when they move in game, thats why.

Well, it has multiple frames for walking.

Not bad Laser Dude, but I think it has just a bit too much purple...

Prolly 'cause the main parts I copied were purple.

I mean, the BC doesn't have much purple other then that part, I used all the dropship's purple, I'll go over em after I do the rest of the frames.

In the effort of deleting all copies of frames I accidentally deleted one that was unique. Is there any way for me to get retroGRP to just extract one BMP?

I haven't done the others yet, I've gotten around to that french project I mentioined above. I'm done now, so I'll get to it.

Hmmm, I gotta figure out how much I need to stretch my dropship image to fit over the wheel wells, I thought I had to use cos and sin, but I'm getting screwed up here. This should probably be in it's own topic, but it's along the lines of what I'm doing.

Actually, I think guess-and-check is doing just fine, I got rid of some purple for my other images, seeing as how the dropship's image is awkwardly shaped. It has; like round wheel wells, the purple protective central 'windsheild' is gone, because that just wasn't working with the dropship's space.

ADDITION:
It looks like so:


EDIT: if the color is the walk animation, then I'm in real luck, since I don't feel like doing so many frames, I'll take a look at the iscript...

EDIT AGAIN: it isn't
I should stop posting, I doubt people take as much of an interest in how I work as I do.

Yeah it is, but then again it isnt, the funky colors are changed in game when it moves, kinda like how in the image for the wireframes are.

Ah, doesn't help me though, I still have to do 27 frames total, it'd reallyhelp if I could get a way to make those tiny tread+color changes without editing the rest of the picture, then I could reduce it to 9+editings. I'll prolly use copy+paste.

To DoA:
Could you please get another list going, after this unit is done, the above list will have been entirely completed.

Yeah Subfocus might be replacing me Because i really don't have too much time to work on any sc stuff atm.. Now, i just wanna find some time to finish the remaining buildings for DoA and take a break, and hopefully I'll have some time for a sequel to AR in the future..

, that's the purpose. The entire race is meant to sort of blend in on that set. However, they'll stick out like sore thumbs on the rest. I'll make sure the colors used for players show up. If he wants to add more to the unit, that's fine. However, from what I can tell , not many other units will look like that one in my mod...so it's already got a bit of uniqueness.


...can you show me where the attack will come from? Other than that...can't think of much right now.


I do like it.



Well, purple = player color...


, did you read my mind that I was going to ask you about those couple of buildings? Thanks for remembering them.

The tank is pointing up away from you. I thight I would be doing a turret. so it has no guns right now.

I believe it was supposed to be transport, therefore there would be no turret.

If you want to add a turret though, I don't mind. The second post is more accurate, using the dropship as a 'windsheild' wasn't working due to fitting problems, so it isn't in other frames.

ADDITION: the list! Don't forget the list!!

I wasn't talking about yours I was talking about mine.